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Monument
Urmond's terp church dates from the end of the 18th century and has a turbulent war history. Two of the three church bel...
Vector of Memory
More than three months after the difficult landing in Normandy, men of the 30th American Infantry Division, better known...
Museum
The Historical Collection of Ground-Based Air Defence (Historische Collectie Grondgebonden Luchtverdediging, HCGLVD) was...
As a result of bombings and plane crashes, many farms and houses in the German-Dutch border region had become uninhabita...
This monument commemorates the more than 500 civilians and soldiers who were killed during the Second World War around G...
Battlefield
Now reinforced with units of the fifth Canadian Infantry Brigade, the sixth Infantry Brigade continued the advance towar...
Cemetery
The Military Cemetery in Kapelle is the only military cemetery in Zeeland, and the only French military cemetery in the ...
In the night of 25 to October 26, a few thousand Scottish soldiers from the 156th Infantry Brigade stepped into Buffalo ...
Audiospot
in the early morning of October 26, the first units of the Scottish 156th Infantry Brigade landed on Amber Beach, just s...
For several years after the end of the Second World War, the Walcheren Causeway - at that time a dyke of a 1000 meters i...
Arnemuiden is a city situated on the western end of the Walcheren Causeway. It came under artillery fire during the batt...
Fortification
Fort Rammekens was built in the sixteenth century to control and protect the shipping connection to Middelburg and Antwe...
In 1942, Toorenvliedt was set up as divisional headquarters for the German units on Walcheren and the Bevelanden. It was...
On November 5, the battle at the Walcheren Causeway ended and Scottish and Canadian units advanced towards Middelburg. A...
When the final Canadian-British attack on the German positions at the Sloedam was successful, the advance to Middelburg ...
Landmark
Stützpunkt Hamster accommodated five large radar stations of the German Air Force in the Netherlands. With the Mammut ra...
Story
Walcheren was of great strategic importance due to its location at the mouth of the Scheldt and the strong Atlantikwall....
In 2017 three memorial plaques were unveiled in honor of the Pilsen resistance fighters at three houses on Čechova Stree...
The Dishoek Coastal Battery was part of the Atlantikwall. The German occupiers established the more than 5.000 kilometre...
During Liberation Day celebrations in May 2012, a monument to Czechoslovak soldiers who fought on the Western Front in 1...
As early as 4 September 1944, people flocked to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Since 1922, this sepulchre had been the...
Brussels. 7 September 1944. On the way to his headquarters, the Field Marshal Montgomery made a short, unexpected stopov...
An atypical and popular Brussels neighbourhood, the Marolles are considered to be the centre of what is known as the Bru...
Apart from the actions carried out by the armed resistance forces in September 1944, Belgium's strictly military contrib...
